In Extortion Jacky is putting the hard word on Suliman who, at least at the moment, is resisting giving him protection money. His uncle wants him to start paying out the weekly five pounds to stop Frank’s men causing any more problems but Suliman knows once they start it will just keep on getting worse.

Meanwhile Des and Co are somewhat surprised to find that the old lady they are helping is Jacky’s Auntie. Sara is concerned that Franks is deliberately trying to sabotage her dad’s election campaign – he is of course.

The arrival of Allen’s son Peter is a good new dynamic, he is clearly nothing like his father’s son but Billy is quick to tar him with the same brush.

Hazell: Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost (ITV 31 May 1979, with Meg Davies)

In Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost our intrepid hero pays a visit to the seaside when an accountant, Peter Harlow, calls him in over a cottage he has been left in a will. He has no idea why he has been left the cottage but since he has taken over ownership more than a few strange things have been happening.

Hazell stays at the cottage for a few days and manages to find no small amount of comfort when Harlow’s wife Stephanie turns up (Harlow himself is in New York). Although there is clearly something spooky going on it’s definitely man made and it doesn’t take Hazell too long to work it out.

The episode was a rare outing outside of London for the series, it was filmed in the East Anglian village of Walberswick and surrounds. Although all the interiors were filmed in studio of coure.